| I created a personal playlist for the corpus which is a collection
of English and Chinese rock music. I gathered a bunch of very popular
rock albums for both languages, English rock from 1950s and Chinese rock
from 1980s. I picked 10 rock albums in total (5 for each English and
Chinese) which I gathered diverse ranking list throughout the internet
and combined with a bit of my personal preferences. Since the Western
music entered Chinese society relatively late, and Chinese musicians
were mainly learning, absorbing and fusing with local taste, it is the
best to compare the general rock&roll taste for both cultures. I
would like to compare, across these top rated rock albums from both
cultures, how different they have in the type of rock music, the topic
and theses they wrote about, instrument they used, and how they deeper
influenced pop musics later on? The limitation is that, since it is a
personal playlist which means it is all of my personal taste, some other
famous albums that can also be representative to the genre might not
apply to my taste. So, it is double-sided, on one hand, these chosen
tracks and albums are representative, but on the other hand, there are
still many representative albums are excluded from this corpus. Most of
the chosen albums are quite representative, but the “Tang Dynasty” is
the most atypical one because it’s more on a metal side rather than the
rock. Below is the list of chosen albums: |
